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ILITARY AIRCRAFT DIRECTORY wsmmmnm (heed Martin Aeronautics Sector, 6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20817, USA; tei: +1 (301) 897 6000; fax: +1 (301) 897 6083 avionics. Payload will be 9,200kg and range more than 2,000km. First flight is planned for mid-1999. Australia has shortlisted the C-2 7J for a 12 - to 18-aircraft light-transport requirement. Brazil is also a potential launch customer for the air craft, with a requirement which could eventual ly total some 50 aircraft. Production of the original G222 ended in n /TLOPMENT OF THE C-27J, an aded version of the Alenia G222 tactical >port, was launched in June 1997 as a joint ure by the Italian and US companies, he twin-turboprop C-27J will be powered le same Allison AE2100s and Dowry six- ed propellers used on die Lockheed Martin 50J, and the equipped witli new Honeywell BaaaaaBBBMBiiia kheed Martin Aeronautics Sector, 6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20817, USA; tel: +1 (301) 897 6000; fax: +1 (301) 897 6083 ing, P0 Box 3999, Seattle, Washington 98124, USA; tel: +1 (206) 655 6123; fax: (206) 773 3900 1989, but was restarted to deliver ten C-2 7A Spartan versions to die US Air Force. The C-27J project emerged as a result of Italian air force interest in'the C-130J, die G.222 upgrade programme forming part of die potential industrial offset on any Hercules II procurement. First deliveries of the aircraft are projected for around die turn of die century, given that a launch order is secured. I RAPTOR )CUREMENT OF the F-22A air-superi- ' fighter for the US Air Force was cut from to 339 aircraft by die US Department of mse's 1997 Quadrenniel Defence Review, luction ramp-up was also slowed, delaying il operational capability until 2005. Odier lges include die elimination for four pre- luction verification F-22s diat were to be I for operational testing. Instead, the last two of seven development aircraft and first two low-rate initial production F-22s will be used. The US Air Force will study an F-22X strike variant as a potential replacement for die F-15 E and F-l 17Aafter 2015, with a possible require ment for up to 2 50 additional aircraft. First flight of die F-22 was in September 1997. The aircraft is being developed to replace the F-15C. Design features include: stealth, widi internal carriage of all fuel and weapons; supersonic cruise widiout reheat; and agility, widi two-dimensional dirust-vectoring nozzles on the two 155kN-class Pratt & Whitney Fl 19 afterburning turbofans. Principal armament is four or six medium- range AIM-12 0 AAMs, two short-range AIM-9 AAMs and a 20mm cannon. The aircraft will enter service widi a ground-attack capability, able to carry two Joint Direct Attack Munitions is in die weapons bay. .!ilM!IJJilflMrWi;6?M:Wilrfi]Jdi(IIAIl',M;6:(i]ii(Hil1HrfiMi>Jit kheed Martin Aeronautics Sector, 6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20817, USA; tel: +1 (301) 897 6000; fax: +1 (301) 897 6083 2KHEED MARTIN received a contract in ember 1996 to build two Joint Strike iter concept-demonstrator aircraft, to be t-tested in 2000.The company subsequent- amed with Northrop Grumman and British >space. One X-35 demonstrator will repre- die conventional take-off and landing JSF int planned for die US Air Force and will be modified to represent die carrier-capable variant for the US Navy. The second X-35 will repre sent the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant for die US Marine Corps and UK Royal Navy. Both demonstrators will be powered by modified Pratt & Whitney Fl 19 afterburning turbofans. The STOVL variant will have an Allison-developed shaft-driven lift fan mounted behind die cockpit and a Rolls- Royce-supplied diree-bearing nozzle to vector main-engine dirust downwards in vertical flight. JSF development is to begin in 2001, widi die aircraft becoming operational in 2008. The USAF is to buy 1,763 aircraft to replace Lockheed Martin F-l6s and Fairchild A-10s; die USN 480 to replace Grumman A-6s; the USMC 642 to replace Boeing F-l8s and AV- 8Bs; and die RN 60 to replace BAe Sea Harriers. mm 1 MAP0 Moscow Aircraft Scientific Production Organisation, 7 1st Botkinsky Drive, Moscow, 125040, Russia; tel: +7 (095) 252 8141; fax: +7 (095) 250 8819 i-21 FISHBED )IA HAS agreed in principle to an upgrade >me 100 of its MiG-2 Is by MIG MAPO. Indian MiG-2 Is are believed to have been rned to Moscow to act as prototypes for die rade, aldiough funding disagreements are inuing to delay the project.The upgrade is d on Mikoyan's MiG-21 -93 proposal, which ides die Phazotron Kopyo lightweight ri-mode radar. Israel Aircraft Industries ) is also offering an upgrade for die Fishbed, Cambodia one of three customers. tomers: (including secondhand aircraft): lanistan 65+, Algeria 90, Angola 70, gladesh 14, Bulgaria 80+, Burkina Faso 3+, tbodia 20+, CIS 3,000+, Congo 14, Cuba i-, Czech and Slovak Republics 3 50+, Egypt H, Ediiopia 95, Finland 54, Guinea Republic [ungary 100+, India 675+, Iraq 2 30+, Laos Libya 104, Madagascar 15, Mali 12, igolia 12, Nigeria 30, North Korea 220, th Yemen 12, Poland 400+, Romania 175+, Somalia 10, South Yemen 50+, Sudan 18, Syria 435+, Uganda 19, Vietnam 235+, former Yugoslavia 120+, Zambia 18. MIG-23/27 FLOGGER AS WELL AS considering upgrades for the MiG-21, some firms have also explored possible options for die MiG-2 3/2 7. Licence manufac ture of die MiG-2 7M (Flogger J) in India as die Bahadur, continues. The Russian air force has wididraw most of its Floggers. There are two main Flogger versions, die multi-role MiG-2 3 and die ground-attack MiG-2 7. The MiG-2 3 B (Flogger F) and MiG- 23BN (Flogger H) export models have a com bination of the MiG-2 7 s forward fuselage widi the MiG-2 3's airframe, intakes and nozzle, while the MiG-2 3MS (Flogger E) has the MiG- 21 's Jay Bird radar in place of die original High Lark. The MiG-2 3 U Flogger C two-seat opera tional trainer has an R-27 engine and the Jay Bird radar. The MiG-23ML Flogger G is a standard Russian operational model, powered by a 128kNTumansky R-35 engine. A dedicat ed MiG-23P air-defence variant has some dif ferences in avionics. The last variants are die MiG-2 3MLD Flogger K tactical fighter, widi dogtooth wing-glove notches, and die MiG- 2 7M/K Flogger J attack aircraft. Customers: MiG-2 3 - Algeria 66, Angola 80+, Bulgaria 40+, CIS 2,2 50+, Cuba 40+, Czech and Slovak Republics 80+, East Germany 110-+, Egypt 45+, Ediiopia 45, Hungary 25+, India 125, Iraq 150+, Libya 200+, North Korea 60+, Poland 100+, South Yemen 25, Syria 175+, Vietnam 30+. MiG-27 - CIS 830+, India 165. MIG 25 FOXBAT A MOST MIG-2 5S HAVE been withdrawn from Russian service, aldiough a limited number of late-model reconnaissance and defence-sup pression aircraft have been retained. The MiG- 2 5BM defence-suppression variant, die Foxbat FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 29 October - 4 November 1997
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